Hi everyone, in our test code we perform a dummy "clear" by reading all the rows and deleting them (while waiting for cassandra 0.7 & CASSANDRA-531). A couple of days ago I updated our code to perform this operation using batchMutate, but there seem to be no way to perform a deletion of the whole row, only columns.
The org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Deletion object can be used with a slice predicate but if I use an empty SlicePredicate there is the obvious validation error of missing either a range or a list of column names. Is it correct that I cannot perform a row delete via batchMutation, or is there another way (apart from reading all the column names and adding multiple deletions per row)? Would it make sense to allow a Deletion object to refer to a row, or even better a RowDeletion(key) class? AFAICT there is no underlying technical blocker, but I may be wrong as usual :) -- blog en: http://www.riffraff.info blog it: http://riffraff.blogsome.com
